Christmastime means toy trains and every year, I try to take my son to some of the following model railroad displays around greater Washington, D.C. U.S. BOTANIC GARDEN One of the most elaborate annual model railroad displays anywhere can be found at the United States Botanic Garden: “It wouldn’t be the winter holiday season without

The Town of Vienna, Va.’s preeminent historian Mayo Sturdevant Stuntz, aged 97 years, has died. Stuntz was a lifelong resident and co-author of the book “This Was Vienna, Virginia” that was published in the late 1980s. He visited my social studies class and shared with us his memories of the town. My brother Christopher, who